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Try reading Richard Hofstadter's classic, "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" for starters. Then Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind." Then Morris Berman's "Dark Ages America." Then Jane Jacobs' "Dark Age Ahead." Then we will talk. Otherwise I am wasting my time.Susan Jacoby has also come out with a book on the topic. I don't recommend it but here is an article by her in "The Washington Post."Postscript: I also like Bill Readings' "The University in Ruins."
Try reading Richard Hofstadter's classic, "Anti-intellectualism in American Life" for starters. Then Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind." Then Morris Berman's "Dark Ages America." Then Jane Jacobs' "Dark Age Ahead." Then we will talk. Otherwise I am wasting my time.
Susan Jacoby has also come out with a book on the topic. I don't recommend it but here is an article by her in "The Washington Post."
Postscript: I also like Bill Readings' "The University in Ruins."